Serious Sam 4

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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 341 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 206 out of 341
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 341
  3. Negative: 73 out of 341

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  1. SRKNZ
    Oct 11, 2020
    2
    Game play is poorly balanced leaving you with segments you complete based mostly on dumb luck, rather than skilled game play. They simply load in too many adversaries, whilst offering up stingy health and ammo. I can imagine this would be a problem for people with mid to low end gaming rigs. Its very very demanding graphically.

    If you want fun, frustration free, Serious Sam, I recommend    Game play is poorly balanced leaving you with segments you complete based mostly on dumb luck, rather than skilled game play. They simply load in too many adversaries, whilst offering up stingy health and ammo. I can imagine this would be a problem for people with mid to low end gaming rigs. Its very very demanding graphically.

    If you want fun, frustration free, Serious Sam, I recommend the first two classic games. The graphics might not be as good but the game play is, in my opinion, much more enjoyable.    … Expand
  2. lxRs451
    Nov 7, 2020
    4
    So the legion system is a lie - the huge fight is just loads of copy pasted enemies and allied soldiers and you can only shoot a few of them at a time.
    The level design is the most bland and uninspired in the series and generally, the bad changes from Serious sam TFE, TSE to SS3 are here as well and even more pronounced.
    There are some fun gadgets and a few good ideas but overall, this    So the legion system is a lie - the huge fight is just loads of copy pasted enemies and allied soldiers and you can only shoot a few of them at a time.
    The level design is the most bland and uninspired in the series and generally, the bad changes from Serious sam TFE, TSE to SS3 are here as well and even more pronounced.
    There are some fun gadgets and a few good ideas but overall, this game feels like a rushed job with poor graphics, tons of nonsensical design decisions, almost no humor (WTF?) and a lot more cutscenes (WHY? And they are crap as well).
    I hope this game would be good but it seems like every new entry in the series is the worse than the previous one since the release of TSE.    … Expand
  3. wasd42
    Oct 1, 2020
    3
    Poorly optimised shooter with flickering textures all over the place and graphics from 2008. Level design is terrible, gameplay is not even comparable to SS2 or 3. No fun at all.
  4. ypermeg
    Oct 5, 2020
    0
    Absolutely terrible game already in everything even before the original
    Ужасный, изуродованный сын первых частей сэма, жалкий отросток подходящий как аддон к 3 части, Плохой дизайн уровней, отвратная оптимизация и просто тупой отстрел мобов, это годиться только на мобилки. F    Absolutely terrible game already in everything even before the original
    Ужасный, изуродованный сын первых частей сэма, жалкий отросток подходящий как аддон к 3 части, Плохой дизайн уровней, отвратная оптимизация и просто тупой отстрел мобов, это годиться только на мобилки. F
  5. frosh
    Oct 6, 2020
    4
    it's a crap.
    i am serious.
    i did it before almost 20 years ago.
    optimization is ok.
  6. RIPTunaMan
    Sep 29, 2020
    4
    Horrible performance with a Ryzen 9 and 2080. 360 launch title graphics. Most boring and uninspired location/level design in the whole series. Very few new enemies/weapons. Just play the originals, they're infinitely more entertaining. Not a horrible game but worse than average.
  7. krabobor
    Sep 26, 2020
    1
    Disappointed, 2007 level graphics, buggy physics engine, dumb and awkward company. I was a big fan of the serious Sam games (especially 1 and 2), but unfortunately from part 3 this game slipped to the bottom
  8. tdarkbey5134
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    I regret to have received a bad game i do not recommend constantly contracting is a complete disappointment for me i will return immediately
  9. Bullkin34
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    This game is absolute trash, there is not optimization, no graphic. This game has a tons of bugs, terrible melee kills animations, loading textures during cut scenes. Yes this game has a lot of enemies, but they all dumb as hell. I definitely not recommend this game, at least now, wait for a year Croteam will fix all bugs and only after that you can buy it. P.S I can say that CroteamThis game is absolute trash, there is not optimization, no graphic. This game has a tons of bugs, terrible melee kills animations, loading textures during cut scenes. Yes this game has a lot of enemies, but they all dumb as hell. I definitely not recommend this game, at least now, wait for a year Croteam will fix all bugs and only after that you can buy it. P.S I can say that Croteam achieved their goal, their game did not evolved at all, it just stuck in 2001.… Expand
  10. Playa1212
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    Serious sam 4 is not game for everyone. the best part about serious sam 4 is the amount of weapons you have that you get to shoot and there are around 40 or more enemy types. The game is poorly optimized and the cut scenes and animations of them are out dated but the game does not look bad, in some levels the game looks pretty and beautiful.
  11. flare123124
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    Long list of things worth mentioning about this game, its pros and cons.
    What was really bad:
    - The first game of all the Sam series, which is **** BORING. - Doesnt work on DX11, only on Vulkan, DX11 is set by default and leads to game crash. - Not optimized at all. That means you gonna have crashes and fps drops even on high-end PC. - World looks extremelly ugly, like an **** from    Long list of things worth mentioning about this game, its pros and cons.
    What was really bad:

    - The first game of all the Sam series, which is **** BORING.
    - Doesnt work on DX11, only on Vulkan, DX11 is set by default and leads to game crash.
    - Not optimized at all. That means you gonna have crashes and fps drops even on high-end PC.
    - World looks extremelly ugly, like an **** from Steam Greenlight. Contrasts are higher that normal, terrain could just, you know, disappear, some objects like trees are transparent and you can pass through them, detail draw distance feels rough, omg. Death animations of flying objects oh god please let me unsee it back.
    - Open world full of NOTHING. In the previous Sam games for a paticular object being in a certain space means that you definitely find something over there. Like, remember, in the Second Encounter, when you're on the blank ice field and there is a single stack of rockets far away. It just screams to you: "COME, THERE IS SOMETHIG INTERESTING". While in Sam4 you can spend half of the day searching for something similar on those giant locations.
    - Secrets, the brilliant of the previous games, are misplaced. There are a lot of places, you know, that looks LIKE a secret, but there is nothing there, so you just spending time getting frustrated all the times you check another "looks-like-secret" spot.
    - A lot of cutscene nonsence. In a meaty FPS shooter game. Are you **** serious?
    - No localization, that means all the jokes are dumb and damn boring. That 'american' humour is kinda sucks and nobody in real world would laugh on it. We had gorgeous Russian locales for Sam3 and the Second Encounter, which again means that Sam became **** worse than it was.
    - Guns feels like 'plastic', no immersion at all. In comparison with SS3 this is just ridiculous, cos gun assets were taken from the previous version of the game, yet somehow guns feel worse now.
    - Serious Sam 3 has more or less fun melee combat with blood flooding your screen each time you crush skulls with a sledgehammer. Now you have a knife and the worst finishing animation i've ever seen.
    - Music is a piece of gnaar **** I cant believe Damjan Mravunac did this with his favorite game. The only good soundtrack was "The Grand Cathedral", which was, what a surprise, taken from the Second Encounter.
    - Enemies are silent, except for kamikadzes. And that was a huge disappointment. In each Serious Sam game you KNOW whats around the corner just by listening to surroundings. But here you can turn around while searching for a secret and see you're in the middle of the fight, actually.
    - Also enemies are EXTREMELLY stupid, even in comparison with other sam games. Im okay with making them stuck in front of a staticmesh, you know, this is kinda feature of Serious Sam series, but when they just STAND STILL after being spawned... well, thats something.
    - And, of course, that legion system is a **** it just doesnt exist. They shown it only once per game, most of the units doesnt have their own hp and AI, more like puppets that die from a single shot.

    What also sucks but I can deal with it:

    - Ugly faces. This is kinda parody of some other popular games (I wont point a finger on mass effect)
    - Storyline and characters. Too complicated for FPS and Serious sam in particular, too simple for such giant locations.
    - Ammo management and overall guns balance. That sucks, sucks, sucks, but thats not the worst part of the game.
    - Perks, half of them are mandatory, half of them are useless. Just like in Doom, so i wasnt surprised. Actually, the only good example of how perks in a shooter game should look like is the original Crimsonland.
    - Being this game a prequel of a prequel, which means all of the characters we've seen in SS3 will survive.

    What was good or at least better that everything else in this stupid game:

    - Papamobile, I love giant mechos
    - Harvester, I love to harvest some meat
    - Sound of squashing bodies (imported from Sam3, by the way)
    - Riding a bull, i always wanted to do that
    - Dual weilded guns, thats always cool to shoot with both hands armed    … Expand
  12. Name
    Sep 25, 2020
    1
    This is a game that can only be described with the word "Yikes!". The optimisation is bad the gameplay is bad the story, oh the story its atrocious. If you want to experience the feeling that this game gives you for free try pulling your toe nail with a pair of pliers.
  13. mgut
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    The game is a piece of **** Boring monsters, bugs, toxic colors, what's wrong with this game? Game worse than Serious Sam 3.
  14. RemakerID
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    Отличное продолжение старого доброго Сэма. Ставлю 8/10 так как очень много багов и пока что так себе оптимизон, в остальном тот самый шутер, которого я ждал.
  15. ZayarniyAA
    Oct 9, 2020
    0
    Разачарован. Графика не на уровне 2020. Уровни примитивные. Бои однотипные. Везде стены, которые не дают возможности развернутся.
  16. REV777
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    This game is absolute Dog 5HiT. The optimization is horrible. FPS drops constantly on high end machines. Half-life from 15 years ago looks better than this garbage. This game is worth 10$ at best. Go ahead and waste your money if you dont believe me. Straight Trash.
  17. mattyg107
    Oct 1, 2020
    4
    The positive reviews are hilarious. One of the best of the series? No those were the first two games. Everything since has been a decline and it's now a game similar to COD, where the idiots they can still trick will buy it and enjoy it. Stupid gamers ruin the industry, keep eating up crap and they'll keep serving it dummies;)

    Look at these 10/10 reviews lol... Yeah wow could you be    The positive reviews are hilarious. One of the best of the series? No those were the first two games. Everything since has been a decline and it's now a game similar to COD, where the idiots they can still trick will buy it and enjoy it. Stupid gamers ruin the industry, keep eating up crap and they'll keep serving it dummies;)

    Look at these 10/10 reviews lol... Yeah wow could you be more transparent? Dumb people with horrible standards or obvious plants. Saying stupid things like best FPS of the year blablabla crap comes out of mouth. You work at CROTEAM. It's obvious and the GOG reviews (the main site where the game is sold) are also not good but this place is getting swarmed with idiots trying to amp this unpolished crap up to a level it will never be. You're not going to make this turd appealing you shills, get lost;)    … Expand
  18. Ssadsq
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    не такого сэма мы ждали, ужасная оптимизация, одни баги, в игре нет ничего кроме багов.
    хвалёная система Легион появляется ОДИН РАЗ В ИГРЕ! 10 минут в начале игры вы можете увидеть 1000 врагов, и то этот момент заскриптован. Сюжет слабый, боёвка оооочень скучная, мультиплеер абсолютно не доделанный. В игре нечего делать, совсем нечего. 0 из 10    не такого сэма мы ждали, ужасная оптимизация, одни баги, в игре нет ничего кроме багов.
    хвалёная система Легион появляется ОДИН РАЗ В ИГРЕ! 10 минут в начале игры вы можете увидеть 1000 врагов, и то этот момент заскриптован. Сюжет слабый, боёвка оооочень скучная, мультиплеер абсолютно не доделанный. В игре нечего делать, совсем нечего. 0 из 10
  19. Frgtuw
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    Очень скучный и неинтересный шутер, который очень сильно забагован. Сюжет глупость, экшен не идёт ни в какое сравнение с Doom eternal. Разачарование, а не игра
  20. Plutarco
    Dec 27, 2021
    0
    This game has decent graphics but it is boring, all missions are the same: backpedalling and shooting brainless waves of enemies. Once in a while you have to kill a big boss or use a mech and that's it, the rest is a stupid story (if anybody can call it a story) and endless waves of idiotic monsters. I wonder if previous versions were as monotonous and dull as this one.
  21. WCM320
    Feb 6, 2021
    2
    The best part about this game?
    All the Russian bots giving it 10/10's on there reviews.

    This game would be alright if it came out in 2010. But it's the pretty bottom of the pile for a 2020 release.
  22. Devastator1988
    Jul 18, 2022
    1
    The boring and repetitive gameplay, a dumb plot, the primitive level design. The game looks completely outdated.
  23. raphaowna
    Nov 14, 2020
    2
    Jogo horrivel, ele é um jogo mal feito cheio de bugs mal otimizado e com graficos de 2010.
    Trash.
  24. kruci
    Dec 12, 2020
    4
    Gra mocno wybrakowana i niedorobiona technicznie. Względem trójki wygląda momentami jak fanowska modyfikacja. Powtarzalne nudne poziomy zrobione z tych samych kilku drzewek, ławek i smietników. Bardzo niska jakość.
  25. username15chats
    Jan 31, 2022
    0
    -Ну что Кенни, сейчас будем мочить монстров!монстров!монстров!монстров!монстров!
  26. 3a21
    Sep 7, 2022
    3
    Nothing to say.
    Bugs everywhere even it's has been 2 years from release date.
    at last final boss when I kill boss ,game is crashed. and report error pop up, wondering this is the end scene.

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 45 out of 74
  3. Negative: 2 out of 74
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 4, 2021
    60
    Sam lost the last remains of creativity. The result is an ordinary megalomaniacal action with a charismatic protagonist who faces endless hordes of monsters. Shooting is fun, the rest is dusty gray. [Issue#307]
  2. CD-Action
    Dec 18, 2020
    70
    Serious Sam remained true to its legacy and therefore is charmingly archaic – which is not a flaw in this case. It’s easy to point out that side missions are uninspired and fail to provide the diversity they were supposed to introduce, or question the quality of graphics and optimization, but it’s not really that important when burying enemies under piles of bullets is so much fun. [12/2020, p.34]
  3. Cubed3
    Dec 2, 2020
    70
    Croteam has yet to surpass its first two Serious Sam games, with Serious Sam 4 basically being one more entry; one that is great fun, but far from an evolution of the series. The flaws are aplenty, although they are rarely very serious (pun not intended), making this fourthquel more disappointing than bad - because, make no mistake, this is very good. Sure, it's not the best Serious Sam game… but still a Serious Sam game. Fans of serious action will understand.
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